"Ding ding ding!" Ma Teng's work phone rang.
He hesitated for a moment before reluctantly answering the call.
"Hello, this is Ma Teng."
"Mr. Ma, you finally answered!" A very youthful voice came from the other end. "I said, if you don't want to meet me, I'll ruin TengXin Games, and if that's not enough for you, I'll switch to another game tomorrow and do the same thing!"
"What exactly do you want?" Ma Teng was truly cornered. You might say he was causing trouble, but he was legitimately spending money on the game, and spending over a billion while at it.
But then again, you could say he was playing the game normally, yet he was driving other players away. If the game was disrupted by him for ten days or half a month, it might have to shut down at any moment.
"Didn't I say a few days ago? I just have a business deal I want to discuss with Mr. Ma, but you didn't give me the chance, so I had to resort to this."
"Throwing money around is your method?" Ma Teng nearly roared. Over a billion for more than a thousand gaming accounts, plus those operating them, that costs money too, right? Is money that cheap now?
"Don't say that, Mr. Ma. However, it's true, money is just a number to you, and to me, it's not even that," Fang Jueyu said. "Let's talk business!"
"Alright then." Ma Teng sighed. At this point, he could only concede; after all, he had money and was willing to spend it. "I'm in the office, when will you arrive?"
"I'm just interning at the game development department, Mr. Ma. Give me five minutes, I'll be right up." Fang Jueyu hung up and rushed upstairs.
"An intern..." Ma Teng's lips twitched. What kind of intern casually throws two billion to mess up a game? Since when did such a deity appear in his company?
"Knock knock knock!" Fang Jueyu knocked on Ma Teng's office door. "Mr. Ma, may I come in?"
"Come in!" Ma Teng was also curious about why this young person went to such lengths to find him.
"Thank you!" Fang Jueyu opened the door and walked in.
Ma Teng sat at his desk. Upon seeing Fang Jueyu, his youth startled Ma Teng, but on closer inspection, this face seemed somewhat familiar.
"Mr. Ma, I've long admired your name," Fang Jueyu said politely. "I grew up playing your TengXin games. Now I finally have the opportunity to meet you. Oh, by the way, my name is Fang Jueyu, you may have heard of me!"
"So it's you!" Ma Teng finally realized why he found this face familiar—this was the young man who had recently been making frequent appearances on Weibo. Now his fame matched Wang Cong's; wealthy, flamboyant—those were his characteristics.
Initially, Ma Teng hadn't paid much attention to Fang Jueyu. After all, a child is just a child, relying on family resources, much like how he'd never taken Wang Cong seriously, perhaps only Wang Cong's father, Wang Lin, could earn his respect.
But since the incident of Fang Jueyu donating 30 billion US Dollars broke out, Ma Teng no longer thought this way; even he couldn't possibly such an amount.
He had always been interested in meeting this young man Fang Jueyu, but he hadn't expected they'd meet in such a manner.
"Mr. Fang, your name is well-known too!" Ma Teng stood up from his seat.
"It's not easy to meet Mr. Ma," Fang Jueyu joked.
Ma Teng silently cursed Fang Jueyu thousands of times: you're such a person of status, wanting to meet me, would it kill you to have your assistant schedule an appointment? Had I known it was you, I would've met you sooner!
"Mr. Fang, you were the one who acquired our TengXin's 11.2% shares, right?" In his heart, Ma Teng had already guessed the answer.
"Yes, it was me," Fang Jueyu admitted without hesitation. He was targeting the shares in Ma Teng's hands and had no need to hide anything.
"It's just that, Mr. Fang, I don't understand why you're acquiring these shares. What's your purpose?" Ma Teng asked curiously. "Mr. Fang, you d 30 billion US Dollars, and now acquiring these shares costs another 30 billion. Your assets must be far beyond that, right?"
"With so much capital, you could easily establish your own internet company. Why trouble TengXin?"
"Starting a company is too troublesome!" Fang Jueyu waved his hand. "Registering, building headquarters, recruiting employees—it's too time-consuming!"
"Oh, I'm currently interning at TengXin's game development department!" Fang Jueyu said. "Your game 'Fatal Rhythm' is pretty good, but I feel it's missing something. So, I thought if I could buy TengXin, then the game would be mine, and I could change it however I want."
"Damn!" Ma Teng's lips twitched heavily. "Just because you want to redesign a game, you're thinking of acquiring my entire company? Do you have too much money to spend?"
Ma Teng didn't say this out loud but cursed Fang Jueyu thousands of times in his heart. This kind of operation was beyond his imagination, a blind spot for his knowledge!
With such a large sum of money, you could develop ten similar games. Why insist on acquiring TengXin's shares?
But considering Fang Jueyu's previous actions—flying cars with helicopters, flinging money at Wang Cong, smashing cars with firefighter axes, sending little online celebrities funded by rich women to mental institutions—what couldn't he do?
He was not just a fool but a fool with incomprehensible wealth. Such a ridiculous reason seemed perfectly plausible for him.
"Mr. Fang, if you're interested in this game, we can completely collaborate on it!" The thought of Fang Jueyu's unfathomable financial power made Ma Teng panic. Maybe he really could fork out a hefty sum to buy TengXin outright.
"No, no, Mr. Ma. My aspirations for this game are not that simple. If I can't gain control of the company, it'll be hard to implement the redesign plan," Fang Jueyu said frankly. "I want to obtain 25% of your shares, Mr. Ma. Are you willing to sell them to me?"
After some time, Fang Jueyu managed to acquire a few more percentage points from the market. By securing 25% of shares from Ma Teng, he would immediately transform into TengXin's largest shareholder!
"I..." Ma Teng was dumbfounded. He had worked hard for nearly thirty years, starting as a small trader in computer parts, and now he was the boss of a listed company; needless to say, the hardships he endured.
Now, a 20-year-old young man wanted to acquire 25% of his shares just because he had ideas about a game, turning him from a big boss into a second-largest shareholder. Who could he reason with about this? What's in the minds of young people these days?
Moreover, according to TengXin's current market value, 25% of shares would require at least 75 billion US dollars. He couldn't believe Fang Jueyu wasn't aware of this figure.
Adding to his earlier spending of 60 billion, that was a total of 135 billion. If he remembered correctly, the gentleman at the top of Forbes had about that much in assets, right?
At this thought, Ma Teng's pupils suddenly widened several times.
"He's the real richest man in the world!"